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With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can't stop.
We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.
All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.
I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.
No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.
You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive.
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members!
As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
India and the U.S. stand together in upholding an international rules-based system that has benefited all nations.
Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down.
Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions.
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.